The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-27
Farm, Garden and Household.

Kerosene excels for softening and
clearing ont the gummed and hardened
oil in the boxes of mowers, reapers and
other farm machinery.
Camphor is recommended as valuable
for the expulsion OF mosquitoes from a
house. 1t is used as follows: Take #
gum-camphor a piece about one third
the size of a hens egg, and evaporate
it by placing it in u tin vessel and hold
ing 1t over a lamp, taking care that it
does not ignite. The smoke will soon
fill the room and expel the mosquitoes,
and not one will be found in the room
the next morning, even though the win
dows are left open all night.
Where irrigation is practicable alfalfa
pays well, as it yield 30 heavily and il
thickly set needs little or no Resolving.
Almost all stock eat it grcedily. if it is
handled properly. Alfalfa should never
be allowed to wait for cutting until after
full bloom as the stock thereby acquires
uwoody fibre, which is about as alaiablc
when dried as SD many wo, den tooth
picks. On the contrary, if cut just before
or at full bloom, 1t becomes an excellent
hay, besides being more easily handled
and less liable to lose much from the
breakago of little limbs and leaves when
hauling. Regarding the irrigation of al
falfa, iii be sown on low bottom lands
where it isn't far to water, the roots will
90 down twenty five and even thirty
feet to reach the water beneath. In such
n case irrigation becomes almost uneces.
sary, except the top becomes very dusty.
MANY young farmers have been Grip
pied at the start by investing too much
capital in farm machinery. Much farm
machinery is m economical necessity,
owing to the scarcity of farm labor rather
than economic saving compared with
hand labor, if the latter is possible
Hence a farmer needs to know not only
the principles and operation of the mach
inery he uses, but also which, among the
vast number offered, he caH most easily
dispense with. For many a stout young
farmer, especially on a small farm, the
costly patent harrow, the sulky plough,
the potato planter and digger, the COM
bined thresher and cleaner. the hay ted
der, and possibly ever the reaper, are
luxurles rather than necessities. l am
old-fashloned enough to be sorry that
the graccfnl n invigorating exercise Of
swinging h cradle is so nearly a lost
art, Doth IN II out ofdoors on the farm.
-ohio Farmer.
COWS should never be permitted to
get hungry for salt in summer, or at any
other season OF the year, for that mat
ter. But in summer, especially, so much
fresh and succulent grass calls for salt
and COWS require it in considerable
quantities--for be it understood that
common salt Is n OF the constituents
Of milk. 1t may not be in the soil, and
consequently not in the grass grown
from it., to any considerable extent.
Then how Is the COW to get it if it is not
fed to her? How can it enter into the
composition ofthe milk unless it is drawn
from what is already stored up in the
blood n tissues of her system? The
system must contain a proper amount in
rue 10 MAINTAIN health. SO. there can
be no serious deprivation Of salt without
injury u both the COW aAd her product.
MIX lacking salt ~ believed to raise
cream hard to chnrn. When a boy, the
writer used often to hear hard churning
to neglect to salt the cows. A
remedy ofthe neglect was supposed to
remove the evil. 1t certainly did no
INJURY, II The proper way is always to
Keep salt within the reac,. OF the COWS
let them lick 1t whenever they want
IT, fural New York.
A farmer had a swaIe in mis- wheat
1eld, on which grass was advanced TO
the proper stage for cutting while his
wheat was yet green. To get to the
swale he had to drive through n portion
Of the wheat. He cut two swaths and
bound them in small bundles when the
grain was in the milk, intending to make